iPhone Processing tasks bar never completes

Hi All,
I already created a ticket, wonder if anyone else experiences the same prob
I dont remember when this started, but I just updated the toodledo vers today and it also was present before todays update

This can happen if you have too many tasks. The iPhone app can't really support more than 5000 tasks and doing the initial sync can take 15 or more minutes to download and process all that information. Try reducing the number of tasks by deleting old completed tasks that you don't need anymore.

That does not sound unreasonable and I did delete some of the completed tasks from 2008
(Hey at least I'm a power user)
But something changed recently making the app much slower/unable to complete
It worked a few days ago... before tasks/notebook was combined
I've been using the app for a few years and can't be the only person who is running into this problem since the iphone app changed

BTW I purged all my data and it's not fetching all of my 300-400 or so active tasks